convert decimal into octal 1305 (10)
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Binary numbers are the life blood of computer.
You probably know what they look like: a bunch of 1’s and 0’s.
Here are some non-examples of Binary numbers
Example 1: 12
Example 2: 31
Example 3: 15
Here are some examples of Binary numbers
Example 1: 101101
Example 2: 101
Example 3: 10
So how do you tell someone that your number is a binary Number?
I mean 10 could be a binary number or it could “ten”?
In fact, there’s a well known joke that goes like this :
There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that know binary numbers and those that do not.
The entire premise of this joke is that “10” could be a binary number meaning ‘2’, but you would only know that if you understand how to convert binary numbers to decimal numbers.
Usually people write a subscript to indicate that a number is base 2 (binary) like this pictures:
diagram-of-the-binary-number-of-2
The binary number ‘2’ looks ‘ten’ , so we put the base ‘2’ as a subscript.
Picture of a binary number with base labelled
Another example of a binary number
So, that’s what Binary Numbers look like